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i dont like that i have to sign in to the view the site on my mobile or my laptop. Sometimes i just want to browse without logging in and having the annoying signup page. yeah have the sign up page but have it more discrete, you'll get more visitors

I joined a month ago. I followed exactly two projects. Log in this morning, suddenly I'm somehow following 100+ projects and 100+ people -- which I never did myself. Spent 30 mins unfollowing all the crap, but if it happens again will be deleting my account.

I always thought that my followers come from that "onboarding" process, where you click yes or no if you like something and through that you follow stuff. Even worse when it happens without you "choosing" something.

Hi @Paul Larson! I'm getting email updates. You can manage your email notifications from here: https://hackaday.io/settings. Be aware that you can get maximum 1 email per hour. Please let us know if the problem persists. Thanks!

Why no like buttons?! Just read an article, did not want to comment, would like to show support for it .. have zero means of accomplishing that. Adding like buttons is ridiculously simple these days .. and there is header space right next to the share buttons .. please employ.

Years back every site had those share and like counters .. Twitter and FB have since depreciated those embeds which I presume was bcz they consumed resources and for major sites, revealed numbers they didn't want. As evidenced by .io and most user content sites, likes (upvotes .. think Imgur/Reddit) work and helps people interact when they don't want to comment. IMO it would work on HaD and consume few resources.

Thanks, good ideas to improve on images. It's a little hard to find, but if you select an image in the editor a small 'edit' button appears, its modal has a title input which populates the alt and title tag.

The text editor needs some serious love and attention. Now that I am tackling a larger writing project inside the editor, I've uncovered a few areas to improve upon.

A huge one would be auto-save. I lost over 3 hours of work because my browser crashed last night. Also, supporting a standard like Markdown would make everything so much easier. That way, the user could edit their text in any text editor, and then just copy-paste it into the Hackaday editor.

Another mild annoyance is the editor's insistence on making anything with a .py extension into a hyperlink. I'm not sure why it does this, I think it should look for https:// before autolinking. If not, then at least exclude the common file endings, .rb, .c, .py, etc.

Finally, when you switch back and forth between viewing HTML and viewing the rendered text, it likes to insert four newlines between each paragraph in the HTML view. This doesn't affect the output but it makes it so frustrating for perfectionists like me that want the HTML view to be nice and neat. Plus, on larger text files like what I am working on, it takes forever to scroll from the top to the bottom and vice versa. After a few switches back and forth, you end up with a giant mess like this: https://0x0.st/sWTI.png

To get around the auto-save debacle, I started writing in emacs in Markdown. I would then export this to html and then paste that into the HTML view. It actually works pretty well, but instead of using <pre> for code, it uses <code> by default. This does work in the editor, but longer lines run off the side of the screen instead of wrapping.

I've also heard about the mysterious disappearing images. Frankly, it might just be aliens, in which case there's not a lot you can do. I suppose the entire site could be converted to text only? That would thwart their dastardly plans!

I hope this feedback is of some use! As I spend more time with the editor I will be sure to update my ideas.

EDIT: I just remembered something else. It would be *awesome* if we could embed GitLab snippets into the text. It's just a <script> tag. I tried to add it to the HTML but it was stripped (I'm assuming so users can't run arbitrary scripts!). I know other WYSIWYG editors I've used have an insert GitHub Gist button, so there must be a way to do it without allowing users to insert script tags.

Thanks for bringing these up again + the new feature requests like auto-save. The image and html bug were reported numerous times. Doesn't seem like the editor is all that important to the staff :(It's by far the most buggy piece of software @ hackaday.io. Constant source of annoying bugs which make it really cumbersome to publish (bigger) projects!

>were reported numerous times. Doesn't seem like the editor is all that important to the staff :(

A business that focuses on hosting have to take that kind of issues seriously or it would lose its content producers. That was a big part why I move my hosting among other reasons. I had reported multiples SPAM daily here over a 2 years time frame - they won't even try to incorporate some open source scripts that was available. I shouldn't be doing their work unpaid. Go back and read my pleas here if you don't believe it.

My new host haven't deleted pictures by accident, haven't deleted first character etc. I have done 96 new posts on new site so far, so I would notice. By the way these bugs weren't here in the old days. They were self-inflicted because of code tinkering. New features - resources for QA/fixing things = more bugs

l get to pick the styles. i.e. fonts, colours, who gets to comment, site stats etc. Autosave works - I closed browser window and it was saved as draft,

Why not switch to something like Quill or Summernote? Or even https://github.com/benweet/stackedit which uses the same version of Markdown as Stack Overflow? There are myriad options out there. No need to build it yourself when there are so many amazing, drop-in solutions for free!

I am on a mission to try to further lock down accounts that are important to me. Therefore I would like to ask for two-factor authentication to be made available on hackaday.io. Pretty please, at least the ability to use a TOTP authenticator app (e.g. Google Authenticator, Authy). Pretty please with chocolate fudge and cherries on top, FIDO U2F (e.g. YubiKey, Feitian ePass) in addition to TOTP, not instead of. And double plus please, with double plus fudge, in a bowl hand-made from a cherry tree, for the love of all that is holy and actually secure, not SMS!

Yes, yes, yes! All modern websites that have user account absolutely need to implement 2FA. Most 2FA implementations make it fairly painless to add, although with hackaday's large user base, maybe it will take a bit more time & ironing out kinks. But I vote this up x100000.

It's rendering in desktop mode on your phone, otherwise the gold bar should not display, the text entry field is not as tall, you would see more text. I'll see what else we can do for a landscape orientation.

I had a problem today that I'm not sure I can reproduce. In a project log I had a table and then I had some text after it. I deleted some of that text and the table went crazy and the text popped up above the table. Undo fixed it.